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Program Quality Review

1. FY97-99 Expenditures for Books and Journals [including electronic databases]: all URI academic departments are provided with a yearly allocation for books. The following provides recent expenditures for your department [along with departments covering related subject areas]:

Dept.	FY97 Books	FY97 Serials	FY97 Total	FY98 Books	FY98 Serials	FY98 Total	FY99 Books	FY99 Serials	FY99 Total
Lib. Total	418522	1588691	2007213	416802	1405294	1822096	391096	1520471	1911674
NUR	7815	23180	30996	4647	25100	29747	6238	25431	31669
SOC	2625	21843	24473	6481	21591	28072	6372	23811	30183
HLT	0	24630	24630	0	9933	9933	0	10898	10898
HDF	702	4767	5469	893	6845	7738	2595	7239	9834

2. View of Book Collections by Selective Subjects (LC): the following provides a broad look at the scope of URI’s book collection, recent activity in adding to the collection, the scope of that activity in relation to the whole and in relation to other medium size academic libraries, and the latest circulation statistics:

Subject	Total Items as of 6/99	% of Total Items Held	Books Added 95/99	% of Items Added	Circ. Stats FY99	% of Total Circ.	Books Added 1983-1993	Avg. Added Peer Group
Nursing	2485	0.303	264	0.925	325	0.510	586	385
Med.,Gen.	674	0.082	26	0.091	21	0.033	60	39
Med.,Hist.	554	0.068	19	0.067	33	0.052	60	55
Med.,Spec	1618	0.197	110	0.385	256	0.401	448	324
Med.&State	1573	0.192	82	0.287	69	0.108	312	220
Pub.health	2366	0.289	195	0.683	282	0.442	543	409
Med.geogr.	41	0.005	0	0.000	38	0.060	8	5
Hospitals	844	0.103	27	0.095	0	0.000	216	149
Homeopath	94	0.011	3	0.011	26	0.041	20	9
SocSci.,Gen	2962	0.361	70	0.245	224	0.351	371	335
Statistics	1386	0.169	39	0.137	116	0.182	105	108
Sociology	5823	0.710	244	0.855	555	0.870	961	817

3. Scholarly Books published FY97-FY99: the following provides a look at the numbers of book titles supplied to academic libraries in FY97-FY99:

Subject	1996/97	1996/97	1997/98	1997/98	1998/99	1998/99
	# of titles*	$ of titles*	# of titles	$ of titles	# of titles	$ of titles
Nursing	196	$6,701	179	$7,042	196	$7,656
Med.,gen.	274	$14,828	326	$18,024	403	$24,627
Med.,PublAspects	484	$39,913	531	$31,066	584	$33,024
Sociology	256	$14,684	255	$16,776	332	$25,679

* does not include university presses

4. Selective Journal Holdings: SSCI provides rankings of social science journals based on a number of categories. The following is the ranking published in Journal Citation Reports for 1998, by impact factor:

The "Brandon/Hill Selected List of Nursing Books and Journals" 1998/99 indicates that URI subscribes to 30 out of 35 journals suggested for initial purchase, and 56 of the total 84 journal titles suggested.

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